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A plea in support of Mr Obama's perfectible health-care bill
I'm in no doubt that America needs universal health care for the same reasons that Europe needed it in 1945.
Read the articleWill Mr Obama bring the United States any closer to abolishing the death penalty?
Standards of decency, which have already shifted sufficiently to provoke debate on the constitutionality of lethal injection and put an end to the execution of minors, are now evolving towards complete abolition.
Read the articleI guess a moratorium, if we get one, is better than nothing
There is growing realisation that, in execution by lethal injection, a condemned prisoner’s suffering is real in many cases, but concealed by the protocol used. The Supreme Court, unfortunately, has yet to acknowledge this.
Read the articleCapote and the death penalty: turning the clock back to 1967
A review of the film about Truman, Capote, in which one deliberately veers somewhat off-topic, focusing more on the curious way in which he approached the death penalty on the occasion of his trip to Kansas.
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